Hi, I’m Amrita!
Welcome to my website. Here you’ll learn a little bit about who I am and how I can be of service to you and your organization.
A little about me…
I’m a researcher, writer, educator, and community-based organizer. No matter what hat I’m wearing, though, I’m interested in truth, justice, equity, and restoration. Whether it’s in the classroom, the community, between two covers, with city governments, or at corporate tables, my vision is to help dismantle the unjust systems holding us all back. My goal is to give folks the knowledge and the tools to do the same.
Organizations talk a LOT these days about diversity and inclusion, which usually just boils down to a numbers game. That’s not what I’m about. I’m invested in changing institutional structures.
I’ve been teaching at the college level for over two decades. My professional home since 2005 has been Indiana University in Bloomington where I’m currently the Ruth N. Halls Associate Professor of History and Gender Studies and the Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of History.
Explore the site…
“Dr. Amrita Chakrabarti Myers is the whole package: an energetic, ethical, and original scholar who is dedicated to getting the histories of Black women right, knowing that doing so is a contributing factor to getting U.S. history right. It has been inspiring to watch her work with such passion across the many dimensions of her life as a scholar, teacher, advisor, and colleague.”
— Michelle Moyd, Ph.D., Associate Professor at Michigan State University
“Amrita’s leadership abilities and her commitment and service to the profession are unquestioned. Her hard work and dedication behind the scenes doing the kind of unseen, largely unrewarded institution-building work attest to her visionary leadership.”
—Shennette Garrett-Scott, Ph.D.,
National Director of the Association of Black Women Historians